Reply #32: All of the voucher plans I've seen take money away from pub budget

[tech3149]

that takes money away from the public school district. The other problem is the vouchers are usually not worth enough to cover tuition for a private school. If you're in a strapped for cash household, where do you get the balance? I'd consider it if the voucher covered the cost of the private school and didn't take the same amount from the public school budget.

Another problem is that the results in Texas indicate that most of the private schools getting money had poorer performance than the public schools and cooked the books to hide it.

Having worked around public schools for more than a few years, mostly dealing with administrators, school boards and such, I think the biggest wastes are throwing money at things that have no educational benefit or administrators (sometimes the curriculum planners) who have no classroom experience. The good teachers don't need someone looking over their shoulder to do a good job, they will read each student individually to help them learn. That's what they live for.

I agree with Jefferson that we should all have equal opportunity in education regardless of our station in life. I don't see vouchers doing anything but the opposite.